@jeffowski I've noticed that many people can reason from A to B, and B to C, but A to C is straining their capacity.

Most religious crap is like that. Logically, it doesn't make sense at scale. But it SEEMS to, at very low resolution of single 'rules' or such, as long as you don't think about them too much.

And there's an entire lucrative industry in doing that 'thinking' FOR you, so that you don't have to -- and also, I presume, in the hopes that you won't.